It does not need to restart any of the nuclear reactors shut down after the Fukushima disaster.

In Europe, the fact that the Doel 3 and Tihange 2 reactors in Belgium are out of action after inspections indicated cracks in their reactor vessels underscores the ongoing risk to public safety that nuclear power poses.

It’s possible that the damage is so great that these reactors will never be restarted.

Belgian nuclear watchdog FANC organised a meeting of nuclear safety authorities in Brussels last month to discuss the issue. Officials from Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the US and Argentina attended the talks.

Greenpeace is alarmed, however, that the operators and nuclear regulators of the reactors in these other countries claim they have no problems at all.

We are calling for all of these reactors to be immediately shutdown to allow for proper and thorough investigations and to ensure public safety.

The plant’s operators were hoping to extend the aging plant’s lifetime until 2019, which would have cost an estimated 120 million euros (US$153 million) in modernisation and safety upgrades, but this week finally admitted defeat.

This should signal the start of Spain’s renewable and sustainable future and is a huge victory for campaigners in Spain who have been fighting the good fight for 20 years.

@Consider: that is actually not very good news, because instead of investing in new plants (which have somewhat lower CO2, but especially much lower t...

@Consider: that is actually not very good news, because instead of investing in new plants (which have somewhat lower CO2, but especially much lower toxic emissions), they'll just keep the old, dirty ones:
http://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/energie/energieversorgung-alte-kohlekraftwerke-sollen-am-netz-bleiben/6621542.html
Or, if you don't read German:
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/22/germany-powerplants-study-idINL6E8JM4OM20120822
So on a typical November day (cloudy, low wind), these old plants will keep smothering their surroundings in their toxic fumes...

just to make sure we are having a similar background for our factual debate coming soon:

You know:

@ Haverkamp

just to make sure we are having a similar background for our factual debate coming soon:

You know:

1.) Hermann Scheer

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Scheer

2.) Aloys Wobben

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloys_Wobben

Since you claim to make accurate statements about Germany you are aware about the political situation in Germany with a conservative government having taken over from a social-green government shortly afterwards softwashing the nuclear-phase out in coperation with the big four shortly before Fukushima.

We are going to have some fun...I said this is not my field of expertise, I hold a university degree in economics of shipping...but the parallels are too obvious:

Shipping Industry build up SKYSAILS in the media just to continue buisness as usual...

Sun Wu, godfather of the Rainbow Warrior III

PS: just to make sure we are aware who we are dealing with: I recommend my comments on DOCTOR Naidoo's blog - my most recent one, the debate about Political Correctness, seems to be matching on you aswell....

This is you, correct?:

http://cz.linkedin.com/pub/jan-haverkamp/4/a86/a99

Please answer my questions 1-10 PRECISELY if you not want to be the next example of why Greenpeace is getting more and more outdated.

For years Lobbyists promise to provide Offshore-windpower...at Alpha Ventus there was supposed to be 40 windmills installed by 2012 ...if I am correct there is only 12 installed by now...there was 3 heavy accidents during construction phase, one was deadly...but in the media even SKYSAILS is flying high and saving fuel.

Question number 11:

What is meant to be A ENERGYHIGHWAY promoted by the leading brains of RE?

Please forget my previous 11 questions. I came to the conclusion that, since your biography is based on being an expert in nuclear questions, you are simply not the right person to discuss Renewable Energy in Germany for the first place!

Sorry for bothering you.

Maybe it would be a good idea if you do not talk about RE the name of Greenpeace...do it at the cracker-barrel!

Question regarding nuclear energy:

Can nuclear phase outs be called a victory if energy-shortage is not being replaced by RE/energy-savings, but based on heating up our climate instead?

Question 1)
How was the last week for our fragile earth?

Question 2)
How was the last week for my friend Tuuts, assistent of technical logistian in Lankien, South Sudan?

Temperature in Lankien when I was there: 48°C

Question 3)
is it supposed to become one of Tuuts permanent tasks to distribute sorghum delievered by 40tons-trucks of the WorldFoodProgramm?